Enterprise Technology Dictionary -- Letter D
Data Center
Definition:
Data Centers are facilities that house and protect critical IT equipment supporting delivery of government services including the space, power, environment controls, racks, cabling and external labor.
We distinguish between Agency Data Centers, and the State Data Centers because by statute we are directed to migrate TO the State Data Center and away from Agency Data Centers.
State Data Centers include:
- The Olympia-based State Data Center (SDC) operated by Consolidated Technology Services (CTS)
- The Quincy-based Disaster Recovery Services Data Center leased by CTS.
- Other Facilities such as Computer rooms and MDF/IDF/telco closets that house IT equipment primarily supporting local building operations in corporate headquarters, call centers or other general purpose office buildings.
NOTE: This definition is used in the TBM program and also reside in Standard 113.30: TBM Taxonomy.
Theme(s):
General IT, Enterprise Architecture, Technology Business Management
Context:
Technology Business Management, Policies and Standards
Data Exchange
Definition:
Supports the interchange of information between multiple systems and applications; includes verification that transmitted data was received unaltered.
Theme(s):
Technology Business Management, Enterprise Architecture, Information Management
Context:
IT Business Function
Data Integration
Definition:
The practices, architectural techniques and tools for achieving the consistent access and delivery of data across the spectrum of data subject areas and data structure types in the enterprise to meet the data consumption requirements of all applications and business processes.
Theme(s):
Information Management, Integration and Interoperability, Enterprise Architecture
Context:
Integration
Data Integrity and Privacy Management
Definition:
Data Integrity and Privacy Management involves the coordination of data collection, storage, dissemination, and destruction as well as managing the policies, guidelines, and standards regarding data management, so that data quality is maintained and information is shared or available in accordance with the law and best practices
Theme(s):
Technology Business Management, Enterprise Architecture, Information Management
Context:
IT Business Function
Data Mining
Definition:
Defines the set of capabilities to provide for the efficient discovery of non-obvious, valuable patterns and relationships within a large collection of data
Theme(s):
Technology Business Management, Enterprise Architecture, Information Management
Context:
IT Business Function
Data Recovery
Definition:
Defines the set of capabilities to support the restoration and stabilization of data sets to a consistent, desired state
Theme(s):
Technology Business Management, Enterprise Architecture, Information Management, Disaster Recovery
Context:
IT Business Function
Data Set
Definition:
A named collection of related records maintained on a storage device, with the collection containing data organized or formatted in a specific or prescribed way, often in tabular form.
Data Warehouse
Definition:
Defines the set of capabilities to support the archiving and storage of large volumes of data
Theme(s):
Technology Business Management, Enterprise Architecture, Information Management
Context:
IT Business Function
Deprecation
Definition:
Act of including Formal notification of the intent to retire some or all components of an Integration service such as API or web service, made some period ahead of time in order to allow consumers the opportunity to update consuming applications.
Theme(s):
Integration and Interoperability, Enterprise Architecture
Topic(s):
Context:
Integration
Developer Portal
Definition:
A user-facing web interface that provides a list of available APIs and is a repository for:
Documentation,
Example requests and output,
Specifications
Interactive tools (test client)
Terms of use
Contact information
Synonyms:
Integration Service Catalog, Interface Library
Theme(s):
Integration and Interoperability, Enterprise Architecture
Topic(s):
Context:
Integration
Disaster Recovery
Definition:
Restarting technology operations after an outage using processes, policies and procedures prepared for recovery or continuation of mission-essential technology infrastructure after a disaster.
These processes are found in a DR Plan. DR is a subset of business continuity and COOP.
The three principal goals of DR are to:
- Save data,
- Save hardware, software and facilities
- Resume critical processes/restore data.
Theme(s):
Disaster Recovery, General IT, Infrastructure Management
Topic(s):
Context:
Disaster Recovery
Diversity Management
Definition:
Understanding the relationship between individual attitudes, behaviors, and employment practices - includes equal employment opportunity to ensure equal access and opportunity to anyone who qualifies and affirmative action reporting and practices to create an inclusive work environment
Theme(s):
Enterprise Architecture, Administrative and Financial Systems
Topic(s):
Context:
Business Functions
Document Management and workflow
Definition:
Defines the set of capabilities to support the creation, use, archiving and deletion of unstructured data. This includes the set of capabilities to support the design, generation and maintenance of electronic or physical forms and templates
Theme(s):
Technology Business Management, Enterprise Architecture, Information Management
Topic(s):
Context:
IT Business Function
